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To: Multiple recipients of list AROID-L
Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2001 3:48 PM
Subject: Re: Amorph abyssinicus/A. konjac.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Tyerman
> To: Multiple recipients of list AROID-L
> Date: Friday, April 27, 2001 11:42 PM
> Subject: Re: Amorph abyssinicus
>
>
>
> Hello Friends,
>
> Remember, A. konjac is a widely CULTIVATED species, so there are MANY
vars.
> of this, and one would expect to find different 'going dormant' times on
> plants collected in different countries/zones. Maybe 'Lord Phallus'
would
> have a more educated comment on this!?
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Julius
>
> >><><<
>
> >Can you trace your supplier back to Collectors Corner at Gardenworld
> >Nursery in Springvale Victoria ? If so you have an Amorph. konjac
> >(disappointingly).
> >A far too familiar case of incorrect plant ID I'm sorry to say.
> >
>
> I know it came from Victoria..... so it is probably what you are talking
> about. However..... why does this form die down far earlier than the
other
> A. konjac that I have? Someone in Queensland told me that theirs has done
> the same thing as mine....and I think they mentioned Collector's Corner.
>
> Are there specific clones of A. konjac that die down before others? I
would
> say we're talking about a month before by the look of it too. There are
no
> signs of even a little yellowing on the A. konjac that I got from an Aroid
> collector (from this list) here in Canberra, so I would have thought it
was
> at least something slightly different?
>
> Cheers.
>
> Paul Tyerman
> Canberra, Australia. USDA equivalent - Zone 8
> mailto:tyerman@dynamite.com.au
>
> Growing.... Galanthus, Erythroniums, Fritillarias, Lilium, Aroids, plus
> just about anything else that doesn't move!!!!!
>
>
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